Early reviews are in, and Google's high-tech specs are a hit -- if you're an overprivileged elitist dork

Ever since Sergey Brin declared that real men don't use smartphones, but don dorky high-tech specs instead, it was clear Google was about to make a Glass of itself.

Last month Google released beta Google Glass units to a select group of tech journalists and other influential digerati. (No, I was not among them. That's what I get for mooning the Google Street View van every time it passes by.)

Memo to Andreessen: If someone ever decides to do a reboot of "Coneheads," you're a lock for the role of Beldar.

Jesus Christ, Silicon Valley -- an anonymously penned, scathingly funny, most definitely NSFW blog -- has a word for these guys: Glassholes. Or as he puts it, "embarrassing overcompensated retards who need something to flaunt while their Tesla is charging."

Google Glass, like the Segway, is what happens when Silicon Valley spends too much time talking to itself. Maybe that's even overstating the case: The rhetoric around Google Glass is what happens when important tech people spend a little too much time congratulating each other....

But making money on consumer technology requires that consumers embrace that technology. If Google Glass makes you look as cool as the guys in that Tumblr, that embrace is about as likely to happen as you hugging a Segway. Or Robert Scoble in the shower.